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Foreign Investment in UK: North of England

Asked by Alison GriffithsConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 17 December 2024UIN 19974

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support foreign direct investment in the north of England.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) promotes and supports investment opportunities across all of the UK. We are scaling the Office for Investment to become the UK’s full investment promotion function providing support to our most important international and domestic investors and help turn the Industrial Strategy and regional growth plans into a clear and commercially credible pipeline of investment opportunities.

For the North of England specifically, we will continue to collaborate with Mayoral Combined Authorities and local partners to showcase investment opportunities across the region to potential investors and to work with them to deliver transformative investment.

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